Fine effort on the scaled 16.4 Mellor. I was unable to do it last weekend but will come back to the RX with the objective of getting the first three elements done within the 13 minutes. It's brutal programming with the Deadlifts, but lol Castro

So I gave this a shot myself Saturday morning. When you're 135kgs lads the prospect of 84 bar hop burpees is very grim indeed. Added to that, I don't have the rack mobility to have the bar on my shoulders in the thrusters and press out of it so I had to 'Chemerkin' each rep:

To warmup I stretched and mobilised fully; did some presses and front squats from the bar up to 50kgs; did a bunch of thrusters @ 50kgs; some bar hop burpees; and then hopped on the rower @ ~2:00 / 500 pace for ten minutes. After my heartrate came down I felt well prepared. I had forewarned my judge that sub 30mins was the aim.

This was the most awful workout I ever attempted. Opened with a set of nine on the thrusters and automatically your heartrate spikes up, and it just stays up there the rest of the way. The two movements are different but equally demanding. I got through the round of 21 in five minutes, and the round of 18 in 12 minutes. Ended up resting forever between thruster sets and crawling off the floor on each burpee. The thrusters became a real drag too as the effort of holding the bar up through the movement compounded as it went along. My time in the end was 28:53. This is slow, but a bunch of lads down the gym came in around ~25mins and we had one of the lads who slowly (and heroically) grinded his way through 37mins to the finish.

Everyone should try this - it's a brutally simple workout that requires minimal equipment and space but I guarantee you'll learn something about yourself during it.

After recovering for a half hour I judged / cajoled one of the coaches through to a 17:08 workout and I can confidently say afterwards that this workout will kick everyone's ass no matter what their level of strength or fitness. One of the coaches is ~65kgs with a gymnastics background and he posted a time within seconds of mine as the thrusters were as difficult for him as the burpees were for me.

I'll come back to 16.2 and 16.4 over the coming month or so - really feel this Open was an exceptional test across both the RX and Scaled divisions.

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There's some fuck up every year it seems, and they are very bad at facing the music and addressing these things fully in their own media. Not a single one of his Deadlifts are up to scratch and, being honest, his score post a 15% reduction is ludicrously generous to him. Bad movement standards for 'speed' is a problem that plagues every Crossfit gym and HQ should really have their eye on the ball on that stuff.

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Ah balls, I can't dodge the Rx'd version now. I have the movements, I've done 21 x 43kg thrusters twice this year in Fran.
I've also be doing 10-9-8...3-2-1 thrusters and burpees. So I'm prob decently prepared for this one. By that, I meant I'll know I'll finish